Membership Poll! How do you contribute to the site

[mitunnelrat]

Not what you're saying, but how? what device are you using to make your likes, thanks, and/ or dislikes?

Are you a computer guy, or married to the smart phone? Do you utilize every available option? Does what you use impact how un/likely you are to reply to a post?

I know for a fact I personally am more likely to reply if I'm on my laptop over my smartphone.

[helomech]

Only get on with my laptop. Hate using my phone for any forums.

[Sniper-T]

I carry a flip phone... not forum friendly. But I work on a PC all day, and play on a laptop in the evenings

[bacpacker]

I use both to read and browse. But more likely to respond by laptop.

[eagle326]

laptop & desk computer. I have enough trouble working these as I'm not puter savvy like most people. Cell phone is a total disaster for a guy like me.

[Fatty]

Phone, pc, smoke signals.

[Kesephist]

My homebuilt tower, here. Flip phone and pleased to have it, but not vastly worried if it goes crunch. I know too many people who are gonna end up later in life with cervical scoliosis from being too head down over their phones and tablets. And damned well not going to be doing phones with GPS unless I can get to the battery without tools.

I have my "scuffler' laptop somewheres...hardheaded little bastid and pleased to have him too.


Kesephist

[mitunnelrat]

Thanks guys.

[bacpacker]

I post from my phone at times....and the spelling shows. Keep, my cell is a Samsung S5. last model they had with a removeable battery.

[Vodin]

sigh... no option for morse code....

[Kesephist]

I post from my phone at times....and the spelling shows. Keep, my cell is a Samsung S5. last model they had with a removable battery.

I won't have something that doesn't have a hard GPS disconnect. Switching off GPS by software is
not 'off' but 'standby' and can still be hacked. And having to carry round a mini Faraday cage doesn't cut it either. One of the sour enjoyments of SHTF will be watching the cellphone addicted go thru withdrawal as their cells' batteries die....

"OH DEAR GOD I CAN'T TWEET OR FACEBOOK OR SELFIE MYSELF ANYMORE!!!! I'M GONNA SUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" , or some such. One of the few things that that dimwit pseudodocumentary "American Blackout " accidentally got right.

I did have a more advanced flip for a while, til the rates got jacked up on it...my sole indulgence on it was Suduko. The flip I have now is for getting a hold of the operator at work when she decides to play caller-ID games with the store's in-house phone system... which I have caught her at, the sinful baggage. The calculator function is a little clumsy, but it works... and I have a text-only number to an old friend in Idaho, also of the prepper mindset. Simply put, a dollar a day which I don't begrudge, and with my K-tor generator feeding it at home, and work providing charging stations, power is not a consideration. That said, if better and cheaper comes along, or the provider jacks up this one, I'll just yank the battery and sim card, snap the damn thing in half, and throw the halves away, in different garbage cans, in different stores.

Kesephist

[Sniper-T]

sigh... no option for morse code....

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[Katrina]

Just the lap top at home or when I can "borrow" one of Son1 or DILS Laptop(like today ;) Only have flip phone Will NOT get a Smart phone !!

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

"KISS"........ laptop (email, shop, SHTFready at's about it), flip phone, no text, leave message, LadyHK has same but uses IPAD long time no shit.

I know enough to be dangerous.

[Vodin]

.... . .-.. .-.. / -.-- . .- .... # / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / .-. --- -.-. -.- ... .-.-.- / - .... . / -.. .. ... -- .. ... ... .- .-.. / --- ..-. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / ... .--. . .-.. .-.. . -.. / - .... . / -.. . -.-. .-.. .. -. . / --- ..-. / .-- . ... - . .-. -. / ... --- -.-. .. . - -.-- / .- ... / .-- . / -.- -. . .-- / .. - / .- -. -.. / -.-. --- -. - .. -. ..- . ... / - --- / ... .--. .- .-- -. / - .... . / ... .-.. .- -.-. -.- / .--- .- .-- / -.-- --- -.- . .-.. ... / .- -. -.. / -.- -. ..- -.-. -.- .-.. . / -.. .-. .- --. --. . .-. .----. ... --..-- / .-- .... --- / .--. .-.. .- --. ..- . / --- ..- .-. / ...- . .-. -.-- / . -..- .. ... - . -. -.-. . .-.-.-

Damn..if only I knew the typed version of morse code I would understand... ;)

[Sniper-T]

play here:


morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

However...........I was known as a "Knuckle dragger" in the Navy. "Deck Ape, Anchor Klanker, Boats," and various other names not suitable for some folks ears. We earned those names proudly, we are Boatswainsmates.

But I humbly admit that dots and dashes never were and are currently not my strong point(no excuse). I still need to brush up on my Farsi(same excuse)!

[Vodin]

Sadly I am but a knuckle dragger... except for SOS that is. :)

[Domeguy]

I use my IPad, and iPad only for any internet or computer work. I have a 5 yr old laptop that stepdaughter infected way too badly yrs ago, it's completely useless. I never use my phone except for calls, maps, and emergency searches.